Monday, December 16, 2013

A New Year of Dastans - at Prithvi, Mumbai

Team Dastangoi opens the new year 2014
 with a fistful of tales
at the Prithvi Theatre, Mumbai 

Directed by Mahmood Farooqui 

6 pm Jan 02, 2014
Two tales from Dastan-e-Amir Hamza & the Mumbai debut of the iconic Beytaal Pacheesee tales.
Performers: Mahmood Farooqui, Danish Husain, Rajesh Kumar, & Rana Pratap Senger

9 pm Jan 02, 2014
A tale from Tilism-e-Hoshruba & the Dastan-e-Taqseem-e-Hind (The Partition of India Dastan)
Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain 

6 pm Jan 03, 2014
Dastan-e-Chouboli & Dastan-e-Sedition
Performers: Manu Sikander Dhingra & Nadeem Shah, Rajesh Kumar & Rana Pratap Sengar

9 pm Jan 03, 2014
Mantoiyat
Performers: Mahmood Farooqui & Danish Husain

Tickets at http://www.prithvitheatre.org/

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Celebrating Translation with Chouboli

As part of the Harper Collins festival on translation,

Team Dastangoi pays a special tribute to Vijay Dan Detha
by performing its adapation of the man's fabulous tale:

Dastan-e- Chouboli

Performed by: Manu Sikander Dhingra and Nadeem Shah

Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui

Max Mueller Bhawan, KG Marg
8.30 PM, December 12, 2013.

Thursday, December 05, 2013

Dastan-e-Khusrau at Lucknow Literature Carnival

Team Dastangoi presents

Dastan Khusrav-e-Shireen Sukhan Ki

a dastangoi presentation on the life, times and works of the phenomenon called
Amir Khusrau Dehalvi,
the 13th century poet

at the Lucknow Literature Carnival

Written and Performed by: Ankit Chadha
Directed by: Mahmood Farooqui